Human brain model and graphene win science's X Factor

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What to do with a cool €1 billion? How about "build a CERN for the brain"?
That's what Henry Markram, director of the Human Brain Project (HBP), intends to do now that the project has won one of two €1 billion European research prizes, to be paid out over the next 10 years. The other winner is a project that aims to unlock the potential of supermaterial graphene.